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The Borderlands of Race : Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town /

Throughout much of the twentieth century, Mexican Americans experienced segregation in many areas of public life, but the structure of Mexican segregation differed from the strict racial divides of the Jim Crow South. Factors such as higher socioeconomic status, lighter skin color, and Anglo cultura...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nájera, Jennifer R., 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Mexican inflections of ethnography and history
  • Part 1. The culture of Mexican segregation
  • The borderlands of race and rights
  • Establishing a culture of segregation
  • Formal and informal Mexican education within the context of segregation
  • An accommodated form of segregation
  • Part 2. Processes of racial integration
  • Troubling the culture of school segregation : Mexican American teachers and the path to desegregation
  • Surgiendo de la base : community movement and the desegregation of the Catholic Church
  • Epilogue.